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The study of mathematics is apt to commence in disappointment.
Alfred North Whitehead
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Alfred North Whitehead
Age: 86 †
Born: 1861
Born: February 15
Died: 1947
Died: December 30
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The mentality of mankind and the language of mankind created each other. If we like to assume the rise of language as a given fact, then it is not going too far to say that the souls of men are the gift from language to mankind. The account of the sixth day should be written: He gave them speech, and they became souls.
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I always feel that I have two duties to perform with a parting guest: one, to see that he doesn't forget anything that is his the other, to see that he doesn't take anything that is mine.
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Our minds are finite, and yet even in these circumstances of finitude we are surrounded by possibilities that are infinite, and the purpose of life is to grasp as much as we can out of that infinitude.
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You may not divide the seamless coat of learning.
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The art of progress is to preserve order amid change, and to preserve change amid order. Life refuses to be embalmed alive. The more prolonged the halt in some unrelieved system of order, the greater the crash of the dead society.
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A man of science doesn't discover in order to know, he wants to know in order to discover.
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It is more important that a proposition be interesting than that it be true.
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No religion can be considered in abstraction from its followers, or even from its various types of followers.
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Everyone is a philosopher. Not everyone is good at it.
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The ultimate metaphysical ground is the creative advance into novelty.
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Life is an offensive, directed against the repetitious mechanism of the Universe.
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Civilization advances by extending the number of important operations which we can perform without thinking of them.
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The study of mathematics is apt to commence in disappointment... We are told that by its aid the stars are weighed and the billions of molecules in a drop of water are counted. Yet, like the ghost of Hamlet's father, this great science eludes the efforts of our mental weapons to grasp it.
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Religion is what a man does with his solitariness.
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Dogmatism is the anti-Christ of learning.
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The future belongs to those who can rise above the confines of the earth.
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Without adventure all civilization is full of decay. Adventure rarely reaches its predetermined end. Columbus never reached China.
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...the only simplicity to be trusted is the simplicity to be found on the far side of complexity.
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True courage is not the brutal force of vulgar heroes, but the firm resolve of virtue and reason.
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No Roman ever died in contemplation over a geometrical diagram.
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